Scientists meet to save Lascaux cave from fungus
Scientists meet to save Lascaux cave from fungus:
"Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened Thursday in Paris to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus stains — aggravated by global warming — that threaten France's prehistoric Lascaux cave drawings.
Black stains have spread across the cave's prehistoric murals of bulls, felines and other images, and scientists have been hard-pressed to halt the fungal creep."
If it's in France, you'd think they'd figure out a way to turn that fungus into the next food sensation, something like truffles, and charge 250 bucks a plate in the finest restaurants for it!
ReplyDeleteSort of like making a silk purse out of a sow's ear?
ReplyDeleteVery nice post. Lascaux’s rich inventory of art were the fine works of the Cro-magnon man. You can find most primitive lunar calendar ever created on the walls of the Lascaux Caves. You must see string of thirteen dots ending in a square shape that point out to the Moon’s half monthly cycle. The empty square represents the missing Moon. Chamber of Felines has an assortment of a seemingly smaller section of beautiful carvings and pictures. people are very much attracted to such work of art.
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